Radio 3's classical breakfast show with Petroc Trelawny devotes its playlist to our solar system’s smallest, swiftest planet and its craters, named after artists and musicians. Show more
Essential Classics
Monday with Suzy Klein - Bellini's Casta Diva, The Hatmaker of Norwich, Jane Glover
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein with the best in classical music. Show more
Rachmaninov was equivocal about his first tour of the States in 1909. Donald Macleod finds out why the composer had mixed feelings about the country he would come to call home. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Wigmore Monday Lunchtimes: Lucy Crowe and Joseph Middleton
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
English song by Purcell, Ireland and Walton, performed by soprano Lucy Crowe and pianist Joseph Middleton, live from Wigmore Hall, London. Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch Show more
Georgia Mann presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a celebration of British music, featuring Elgar, Tippett, Parry, plus the less well-known Blackford, Hesketh and Gipps. Show more
Sarah Walker's guests include viola player Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad, cellist Steven Isserlis and the Elias String Quartet. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist includes music by Mancini, Dowland and Tchaikovsky and performances by the Vienna Berlin Music Club, Jerusalem Quartet and Aurora Orchestra. Show more
BBC Philharmonic with Chief Guest Conductor John Storgards in an Italian-inspired programme. Alban Gerhardt joins the orchestra for Walton's Cello Concerto. Show more
Film composer Jocelyn Pook, a proposed new concert hall in Edinburgh, and an opera born out of objects found on the banks of the Thames Show more
Joanna Robertson's earliest childhood memory is that of a baker's basket full of fragrant buns, cakes and bread. It was the start of a lifelong love affair, with all that entails. Show more
Soweto Kinch with another chance to hear Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society. Show more
John Shea presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a performance of Bartok's Dance Suite, Malcolm Hayes's Violin Concerto and Dvorak's Symphony No 7 at the 2016 BBC Proms. Show more